Video: ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’ Being Dismantled and Painted Over in DC
Workers in Washington, D.C., have started the process of dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza — including the bright yellow mural that has been on 16th Street since the race riots of June 2020.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered the eyesore painted a block away from the White House after George Floyd’s death.
Bowser described the city-sanctioned vandalism as a show of “solidarity,” but it was widely mocked as pandering — even by the left.
The 35-foot-tall letters cost taxpayers over $4 million to install and maintain.
Congress passed the removal of the mural after Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde introduced a bill threatening to withhold millions in federal funds from D.C. unless the removal was conducted and the plaza renamed “Liberty Plaza.”